Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-26
STATE coRREspoNDENoE.
Milford.


MILFORD, Jan. 25.-Miss Annie Ayres of
Woodmont, who has been seriously i'll with
typhoid fever, has recovered and is able to be
about again among her friends.
A prayer meeting has been started in the
west side school house by Rev. N. M Cal
houn, which is held on Thursday evenings,
and it is hoped will be productive of much
good.
Sleighing parties from New Haven and
elsewhere found a hospitable reception at the
Milford House last week.
The semi-annual meeting Of the directors
of the Milford Savings bank was held last
evening.
Mrs. Owen T. Clark has been chosen to
conduct the teachers Bible class of Plymouth
church.
The Rebecca degree lodge of Odd Fellows
is to be established on Thursday evening.
During the past week the ladies of the
First church have sent away two barrels of
clothing which were valued at 500. One
was sent to the Connecticut Industrial school,
Thomasville, Ga; the other to home mis-.
sionary in Kansas.
The following officers were chosen at the
adjourned meeting of Plymouth church So
ciable held at the residence of Mrs A. G.
Tibbals last Friday evening: President, Miss
Susie Baldwin: vice president, Mrs. Nathan
Clark; secretary, DR.. J. S. Carroll; treasurer,
Sanford Hawkins; committee for drafting
constitution and bylaws, Miss Susie Bald
| win, DR.. ]. S. Carroll, Sanford Hawkins.
The treasurer reported about $40 in the trea-
sury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tomlinson attended
the opera ''Faust" as presented in Carll's
Opera House, New Haven, last Thursday
evening.
Mr.. Robert Victor, who has been uncon-
| scious for several days owing to a stroke OF
first of the week. John Victor, son from
Chicago, is here and will remain for the
present.
Miss Mary E. Tibbals has returned from a
protracted visit with friends in Gunnison
City, Colorado.
William Williams, of Orange, was fined 81,
costs of court and sentenced to thirty days
in Jail by Justice P S. Bristol on Monday
morning for disturbing the peace and using
abusive language while in a state of intoxi-
cation last Saturday night.
General state News.
DEATH OF REV. CHARLES w. COTTON.
Yesterdays Hartford Courant says of the
late Rev. G. w. Cotton of Pine Meadow, who
died on Sunday: Mr.. Cotton was a native of
this city, where he was born in 1940 His
father was Charles A. Cotton, who began
business in this city half century ago as a
merchant tailor. He left Hartford some
time ago and went to Pittsburg, Pa, where
he started a savings bank which became a
prosperous concern. He was still the head of
the bank at his death. The subject of this
sketch got a common school education in
this city and entered the Berkeley school at
Middletown. After graduation he taught
school some years near Providence and then
realized the ambition he had cherished since
childhood and entered the ministry. After
his passionate in Rhode Island, he became
rector of the Episcopal church at New Hart
ford pine Meadow, and died in Office Sun
day afternoon after brief illness of pneu-
monia. He married Miss Cora Dickinson of
Bethany, who survives him. Funeral
services will be held Wednesday at p. m.
at ST. Johns church, Pine Meadow, and the
burial will be on Thursday at Cedar Hill
cemetery on the arrival Of the IL :45 train on
the Connecticut Western road.
HOrsfOrd's Acid Phosphate
In Weak stomach and Dyspepsia.
DR.. J. G. Winans, Madison, O., says: 81
have used if in atony of the stomach, dys-
pepsia and vomiting in pregnancy and found
it an admirable remedy; also in atomic con-
ditions where phosphorus is required"
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FROZEN STIFF.
In Putnam yesterday the body of French
man named Stone was found in the snow
frozen stiff. Rum did it.